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dcseain ([personal profile] dcseain) wrote2007-05-07 08:37 pm
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Great Example / Gran Ejemplo

I (he) asked him (me) to do it, but he (I) would not.

The above sentence, from this article, cannot be rendered into Spanish in that structure, nor most any language with fully conjugated verbs, very easily, if at all.

[identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Which part, the contrapositive subjunctive mood?